Recast as of 01-06-2021

GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF

RESOLUTION No 1226

DECLARING QUARANTINE ON THE TERRITORY OF THE REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA

4 November 2020

In pursuance of Article 21(11) and (3)(1) of the Law of the Republic of Lithuania on the Prevention and Control of Communicable Diseases in Humans and having regard to the adverse epidemic COVID-19 (coronavirus infection) situation in the territory of the Republic of Lithuania, to the submission by the Minister for Health, also to the recommendation by the Emergency Commission of the Government of the Republic of Lithuania of 4 November 2020, the Government of the Republic of Lithuania has r e s o l v e d: 1. To declare quarantine on the entire territory of the Republic of Lithuania and to confirm the quarantine requirements. 2. To lay down the following requirements for cross-border movement: 2.1. Temporary conditions for closing and/or restriction of the state border crossing: 2.1.1. Border crossing will be closed at the following border crossing points: 2.1.1.1. Ramoniškiai - Pogranichny; 2.1.1.2. Nida - Morskoe; 2.1.1.3. Adutiškis - Moldevichi; 2.1.1.4. Krakūnai - Geraneny; 2.1.1.5. Eišiškės - Dotishki; 2.1.1.6. Rakai - Petyulevcy; 2.1.1.7. Norviliškės - Pitskuny; 2.1.1.8. Latežeris - Parecha; 2.1.1.9. Švendubrė - Privalka; 2.1.1.10. Nida - Rybachy; 2.1.1.11. Jurbarkas - Sovetsk; 2.1.1.12. Rusnė - Sovetsk. 2.1.2. Border crossing will be restricted at the following border crossing points: 2.1.2.1. by road: 2.1.2.1.1. - Kamenyi Log; 2.1.2.1.2. Šalčininkai - Benjekoni; 2.1.2.1.3. Raigardas - Privalka; 2.1.2.1.4. Kybartai - Chernyshevskoye; 2

2.1.2.1.5. Panemunė - Sovetsk; 2.1.2.1.6. Lavoriškės - Kotlovka; 2.1.2.1.7. Tverečius - Vidzy; 2.1.2.1.8. - Lyntupy (only for vehicles transporting large-size and heavy- weight cargo holding a permit issued in accordance with the procedure established by law); 2.1.2.1.9. Šumskas - Losha; 2.1.2.2. by rail: 2.1.2.2.1. - Gudagai; 2.1.2.2.2. Vilnius railway station border checkpoint; 2.1.2.2.3. Stasylos - Benjekoni; 2.1.2.2.4. Kybartai - Nesterov; 2.1.2.2.5. Pagėgiai - Sovetsk; 2.1.2.3. international airports border checkpoints: 2.1.2.3.1. Vilnius; 2.1.2.3.2. Kaunas; 2.1.2.3.3. Palanga; 2.1.2.3.4. Šiauliai; 2.1.2.4. international seaports border checkpoints: 2.1.2.4.1. Pilies; 2.1.2.4.2. Malkų įlankos; 2.1.2.4.3. Būtingė oil terminal; 2.1.2.4.4. Molo. 2.2. Border crossing will be restricted for entry of foreigners to the Republic of Lithuania. This will not apply in the case of: 2.2.1. the citizens of and persons lawfully residing in the countries of the European Economic Area, the Swiss Confederation, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Principality of Andorra, the Principality of Monaco, the Republic of San Marino and the Holy See (Vatican City State), the countries that have been included in the EU-level list of third countries whose residents should not be affected by temporary external border restriction on non-essential travel to the EU; 2.2.2. foreigners who hold a document confirming their right to reside in the Republic of Lithuania, or in whose respect the Migration Department under the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Lithuania has adopted a decision to issue a document confirming the right to reside in the Republic of Lithuania or has sent a notice regarding the submission, within the set deadline, of the original documents and biometric data required for the decision to issue a document confirming the right to reside in the Republic of Lithuania, and foreigners who are a spouse, a person, with whom a registered partnership agreement has been concluded (hereinafter the ‘partner’), a close relative (parents (adoptive parents) children (adopted children), grandparents, grandchildren, brothers and sisters) (hereinafter a ‘close relative’), including close relatives of the spouse or partner, or a guardian of a citizen of the Republic of 3

Lithuania or of a foreigner who holds a document confirming the right to reside in the Republic of Lithuania; 2.2.3. foreigners who hold a national visa of the Republic of Lithuania or in whose respect the Migration Department under the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Lithuania has adopted a decision to issue a national visa; 2.2.4. persons enjoying immunities and privileges under the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations (1961), the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations (1963) and under other international agreements and legislation of the Republic of Lithuania, their family members (the spouse or partner, children (adopted children) of the person and/or the spouse or partner, also parents (adoptive parents), guardians (hereinafter ‘family members’), their other close relatives, also their service personnel, and members of official delegations; 2.2.5. persons serving in the military units of NATO and of NATO countries and their service personnel, their family members, and their other close relatives; 2.2.6. crew members, who are employed in Lithuanian companies engaged in international commercial transportation, or who carry out international commercial transportation by all types of vehicles, also seafarers; 2.2.7. health professionals arriving into the Republic of Lithuania for the provision of health services; 2.2.8. high-performance athletes, professionals of high-performance sports and physical activity, instructors of high-performance sports and physical activity and their family members, competition referees or other key personnel of competitions, and sports medical personnel, who come to the Republic of Lithuania at the permission of the Minister for Education, Science and Sport of the Republic of Lithuania for the preparation for and participation in high-performance athletic competitions; 2.2.9. artists arriving in the Republic of Lithuania at the permission of the Minister for Culture of the Republic of Lithuania for the participation in professional artistic activities, and their service personnel; 2.2.10. journalists arriving in the Republic of Lithuania at the permission of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania; 2.2.11. other exceptional cases, where foreigners are allowed entry to the Republic of Lithuania at an individual permission by a minister holding jurisdiction in the respective realm; 2.2.12. persons transiting through the territory of the Republic of Lithuania: 2.2.12.1. persons returning to their country of residence; 2.2.12.2. persons in whose respect a reasoned request has been made by a foreign country; 2.2.12.3. persons using facilitated transit of persons to travel between the territory of the Russian Federation and the Kaliningrad region of the Russian Federation. Such transit of persons can only be carried out through Kena railway border checkpoint and Kybartai railway 4 border checkpoint under the conditions laid down by the Minister for Foreign affairs of the Republic of Lithuania; 2.2.12.4. foreigners travelling by transit trains referred to in paragraph 2.2.12.3. with no right to board and deboard in the territory of the Republic of Lithuania; 2.2.13. foreigners entering the Republic of Lithuania for the purpose of studies, admitted for studies under a study programme(s) or for doctoral studies in Lithuanian higher education and research institutions, which ensure the requirements laid down by the State Commander of National Emergency Operations regarding isolation of foreigners arriving for the purpose of studies; 2.2.14. foreigners coming to training organisations based in the Republic of Lithuania approved by a competent authority, or organisations that use flight simulators, to participate in training for aviation specialists at the invitation of these organisations; 2.2.15. foreign investors arriving in the Republic of Lithuania at the permission of the Minister for Economy and Innovation, where there is a confirmation from a public institution specified in Article 13(4) of the Law of the Republic of Lithuania on Investments regarding foreign investors’ plans for investments in the Republic of Lithuania, which are of the minimum value referred to in Article 13(1)(6) of the Law on Investments; 2.2.16. foreigners arriving in the Republic of Lithuania for special humanitarian reasons at the permission of the Minister for the Interior of the Republic of Lithuania, where there is a reasoned recommendation by the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania or his authorised person regarding the entry of foreigners to the Republic of Lithuania; 2.2.17. foreigners arriving in the Republic of Lithuania to attend the funeral of a spouse, partner, close relatives, including the close relatives of the spouse or partner, or of a guardian; 2.2.18. foreigners coming to the intelligence authorities of the Republic of Lithuania for purposes related to ensuring national security at the permission of the Minister for National Defence of the Republic of Lithuania or the Director of the State Security Department of the Republic of Lithuania, respectively; 2.2.19. foreigners holding a document issued by a medical establishment, a country- specific vaccination certificate, or an international vaccination certificate confirming the complete vaccination with one of the COVID-19 vaccines (COVID-19 Vaccine Janssen, Comirnaty, COVID-19 Vaccine Moderna, or Vaxzevria) administered under the vaccination schedule approved by the competent authority of the country where the vaccination was carried out (the documents referred to in this subparagraph must be in one of the official languages of the European Union). 2.3. The foreigners referred to in paragraph 2.2 of this Resolution must comply with the self-isolation requirements laid down by the State Commander of National Emergency Operations, except for foreigners referred to in paragraphs 2.2.4, 2.2.5, 2.2.12 and 2.2.18 of this Resolution. 5

2.4. All those travelling to the Republic of Lithuania on international passenger routes organised and operated by carriers as regular, special and charter services (by all types of vehicles), will be required, on their return or arrival, to present a document (in one of the official languages of the European Union) confirming a test for COVID-19 (coronavirus infection) taken within 72 hours before the return or arrival in Lithuania (hereinafter ‘COVID- 19 test’) and a negative COVID-19 test result (a serological antibody test result will not be recognised). All the carriers, travel operators and tourism service providers organising and operating passenger carriage on international routes as regular, special and charter services (by all types of vehicles) will be required to ensure that passengers that fail to present the documentation confirming their COVID-19 test and a negative COVID-19 test result are prevented from boarding a vehicle. The requirements for COVID-19 testing will exempt: 2.4.1. crew members transporting passengers on international routes by all types of vehicles, provided their stay in the territory of the Republic of Lithuania lasts less than 72 hours; 2.4.2. travellers transiting through the Republic of Lithuania; 2.4.3. travellers (except travellers who have visited the Republic of India over the last 14 days before the return to/arrival in the Republic of Lithuania) holding a document issued by a medical establishment confirming the recovery of the COVID-19 infection confirmed by a positive result of a SARS-CoV-2 PCR test or of an antigen test, and no more than 180 days have passed of the positive testing until the return/entry to the Republic of Lithuania, or travellers holding a document issued by a medical establishment, a country-specific vaccination certificate or an international vaccination certificate confirming the complete vaccination with one of the COVID-19 vaccines (COVID-19 Vaccine Janssen, Comirnaty, COVID-19 Vaccine Moderna, or Vaxzevria) administered under the vaccination schedule approved by the competent authority of the country where the vaccination was carried out (the documents referred to in this subparagraph must be in one of the official languages of the European Union); 2.4.4. those under 16 years; 2.4.5. members of official delegations; 2.4.6. those referred to in paragraph 2.2.16 of this Resolution (they will undergo a COVID-19 test in the Republic of Lithuania). 2.5. Persons who are not subject to the state border crossing restriction will cross the state border only through the border crossing points listed in paragraph 2.1.2 of this Resolution. 3. To require that everyone above 6 years of age wear tightly fitting protective equipment (face masks, respirators or other equipment) covering nose and mouth in public places (hereinafter ‘face masks’). This requirement shall not apply in the case of: 3.1. exercising individuals; 6

3.2. professionals of high-performance sports and physical activity participating in high-performance sports training and competitions, high-performance sports and physical activity instructors and competition referees; 3.3. during the provision of a service where a service cannot be delivered when a customer is wearing a mask; 3.4. persons with disability who cannot wear a mask due to their health condition or where it can adversely affect their health condition. They are recommended to wear a face shield instead; 3.5. outdoors, where there are no other people around except members of the family and/or household; 3.6. children in pre-school, pre-primary and primary education whilst in the education establishment and/or its territory, also children participating in children camps; 3.7. performers during the performance. 4. To lay down the following requirements for gatherings, close contacts and private parties: 4.1. it is allowed to be in indoor public and private places in groups of maximum 10 persons or members of two families and/or two households except the cases where this Resolution allows services and activities for larger groups; 4.2. attending funerals services indoors is restricted to maximum 50 persons except the persons providing funeral services; 4.3. the restrictions under paragraphs 4.1 and 4.2 of this Resolution will not apply in the case where a gathering involves only those who qualify under the requirements laid down in paragraph 18 of this Resolution; 5. To require that travelling by regular public transport (city, long-distance and suburban) and by special and charter routes comply with the conditions laid down by the State Commander of Emergency Operations for the management of the flow of people, safe physical distance, and other key requirements for public health safety, hygiene, and the provision of persons with necessary personal protective equipment. 6. To require that state and municipal institutions and bodies and state and municipal enterprises and the private sector organise work and provide customer services so as to ensure the compliance with the conditions laid down by the State Commander of National Emergency Operations for the management of the flow of people, safe physical distance, and other key requirements for public health safety, hygiene, and the provision of persons with necessary personal protective equipment. It is obligatory to ensure the performance of the essential and urgent statutory functions (work). 7. To require that stores, marketplaces and other public points of sale ensure the total of 10 m2 per visitor (except the cases where services are delivered only to those who qualify under the requirements laid down in paragraph 18 of this Resolution) or serve only one customer at a time and ensure other conditions laid down by the State Commander of National Emergency Operations for the management of the flow of people, safe physical 7 distance, and other key requirements for public health safety, hygiene, and the provision of persons with necessary personal protective equipment. 8. To require that contact services are provided while ensuring 10 m2 per customer (except transport vehicles, points of accommodation services, and points of services referred to in paragraphs 9-15 of this Resolution, and when services are delivered only to those who qualify under the criteria laid down in paragraph 18 of this Resolution) or serving only one customer a time and ensuring other conditions laid down by the State Commander of National Emergency Operations for the management of the flow of people, safe physical distance, and other key requirements for public health safety, hygiene, and the provision of persons with necessary personal protective equipment. 9. To require that services of leisure and use of sports equipment, gyms, fitness centres, entertainment, recreation, swimming pools, saunas, discos and dance halls are provided while ensuring 20 m2 of service space per customer (except high-performance sports training, recreational boating, sauna services, and when services are delivered only to those who qualify under the criteria laid down in paragraph 18 of this Resolution) or serving one customer at a time and ensuring other conditions laid down by the State Commander of National Emergency Operations for the management of the flow of people, safe physical distance, and other key requirements for public health safety, hygiene, and the provision of persons with necessary personal protective equipment. 10. To require that theatre and cinema services, visits to professional stage art venues, commercial and non-commercial cultural, entertainment, sporting events, celebrations, fairs, festivals or other mass gatherings held in public locations of a certain duration at a scheduled time (hereinafter all the services and activities listed in this subparagraph will be called ‘events’) are organised in compliance with the conditions laid down by the State Commander of National Emergency Operations for the management of the flow of people, safe physical distance, and other key requirements for public health safety, hygiene, and the provision of persons with necessary personal protective equipment, also following these requirements: 10.1. ensuring online ticketing and/or registration of spectators and/or participants and controlling access by spectators and/or participants to the venue of the event; 10.2. indoor events can be attended by up to 250 spectators and/or participants, spectators and/or participants watch the event seated (except the cases of animal exhibitions), and events can be held at up to 50% seating capacity, also spectators and/or participants over the age of 6 wear face masks during the entire event except cases referred to in paragraph 3 of this Resolution. It will not be allowed to sell food and beverages or provide other services during these events; 10.3. outdoor events can be attended by an unlimited number of spectators and/or participants, spectators and/or participants watch the event seated (except the cases of animal exhibitions), also spectators and/or participants over the age of 6 wear face masks during the entire event except the cases referred to in paragraph 3 of this Resolution. It will not be allowed to sell food and beverages or provide other services during these events; 8

10.4. indoor events for only those who qualify under the criteria laid down in paragraph 18 of this Resolution can be attended by up to 2 000 spectators and/or participants, spectators and/or participants watch the event seated (except the cases of animal exhibitions), and the events are held at up to 75% seating capacity, also spectators and/or participants over the age of 6 wear face masks during the entire event except cases referred to in paragraph 3 of this Resolution; 10.5. indoor events: Lithuania men’s national basketball team friendly matches and 2020 FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament matches can be attended only by those who qualify under the criteria laid down in paragraph 18 of this Resolution, spectators and/or participants watch the event seated, and the event is held at up to 75% seating capacity, also spectators and/or participants over the age of 6 wear face masks during the entire event except cases referred to in paragraph 3 of this Resolution; 10.6. outdoor events only for those who qualify under the criteria laid down in paragraph 18 of this Resolution can be attended by an unlimited number of spectators and/or participants; 10.7. the number of spectators and/or participants will not include performers, athletes who participate in high-performance athletic competitions, professionals of high-performance sports and physical activity, high-performance sports and physical activity instructors, competition referees, anti-doping officers, organisers and service personnel; and these persons are not required to qualify under the requirements of paragraph 18 of this Resolution). 11. To require that visits to culture establishments, libraries, the reading rooms of state archives, learning and educational trails, parks, museums, galleries and other exposition spaces, zoos and botanical gardens, and amateur culture group rehearsals in culture centres and tours are organised in compliance with the conditions laid down by the State Commander of National Emergency Operations for the management of the flow of people, safe physical distance, and other key requirements for public health safety, hygiene, and the provision of persons with necessary personal protective equipment, also following these requirements: ensuring 10 m2 visiting space per person indoors (except those who qualify under the criteria laid down in paragraph 18 of this Resolution), and there will be no restrictions on the space per person and number of people outdoors. 12. To require that public catering facilities, restaurants, cafés, bars, nightclubs and other entertainment venues, gambling houses (casinos), amusement arcades, bingo halls, betting and totalisator outlets are in compliance with the conditions laid down by the State Commander of National Emergency Operations for the management of the flow of people, safe physical distance, and other key requirements for public health safety, hygiene, and the provision of persons with necessary personal protective equipment, and the following requirements: 12.1. public catering facilities, restaurants, cafés, bars, nightclubs, other entertainment venues, gambling houses (casinos), amusement arcades, bingo halls, betting and totalisator 9 outlets can stay open from 7.00 to 24.00, where food and drinks are consumed at tables outside and where the activities are held outdoors; 12.2. public catering facilities, restaurants, cafés, bars, nightclubs, other entertainment venues, gambling houses (casinos), amusement arcades, bingo halls, betting and totalisator outlets will be allowed to operate indoors from 7.00 to 24.00 serving only those who qualify under the criteria laid down in paragraph 18 of this Resolution; 12.3 catering facilities, restaurants, cafés and bars at seaport and airport passenger departure terminals, where food and drinks are consumed while seated at a table with up to 2 people at the table except members of one family and/or one household; 12.4. the restrictions referred in paragraphs 12.1-12.3 of this Resolution will not apply in the case of: 12.4.1. takeaway food or where food can be otherwise delivered to natural and legal persons; 12.4.2. catering provided to the staff of enterprises, establishments or organisations working on shifts, in the territories and/or premises of such enterprises, establishments or organisations; 12.4.3. catering services are provided in educational, social care, personal health care, national defence, penitentiary establishments, remand prisons, the Foreigners’ Registration Centre of the State Border Guard Service under the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Lithuania (hereinafter ‘the FRC’), or other establishments where catering is required by the operational profile of these establishments, and during welcoming of official delegations; 12.4.4. public catering provided only to the customers of accommodation service facilities in the territories and/or premises of accommodation service facilities. 13. To lay down the following requirements for organising and providing education: 13.1. pre-school and pre-primary education will be provided following the conditions laid down by the State Commander of National Emergency Operations for the management of the flow of people, safe physical distance, and other key requirements for public health safety, hygiene, and the provision of persons with necessary personal protective equipment. Participation in pre-school and pre-primary education is recommended only for those children whose parents (adoptive parents or guardians) have no possibilities of working from home; 13.2. primary education will follow the model of blended education in compliance with the requirements laid down by the State Commander of National Emergency Operations for the management of the flow of people, safe physical distance, and other key requirements for public health safety, hygiene, and the provision of persons with necessary personal protective equipment, in the territories of the following municipalities of: Birštonas, Biržai district, Elektrėnai, Ignalina district, Jurbarkas district, Joniškis district, Klaipėda district, Kretinga district, Kupiškis district, Mažeikiai district, Neringa, Pakruojis district, Pasvalys district, Rokiškis district, Skuodas district, Šiauliai district, Šilalė district and Telšiai district; 13.3. schools in the territories of the municipalities that are not listed in paragraph 13.2 of this Resolution selected by administrations of these municipalities will follow the 10 model of blended primary education subject to regular preventive COVID-19 (coronavirus infection) testing of primary school pupils and school staff working in contact with the pupils, or to self-monitoring for COVID-19 (coronavirus infection) in compliance with the conditions laid down by the State Commander of National Emergency Operations for the management of the flow of people, safe physical distance, and other key requirements for public health safety, hygiene, and the provision of persons with necessary personal protective equipment, or they will provide primary education remotely. Preventive COVID-19 (coronavirus infection) testing (or self-monitoring for COVID-19 (coronavirus infection)) will not be required in the case of primary school pupils educated outdoors; 13.4. pre-secondary and secondary education schools (except the case referred to in paragraph 13.5 of this Resolution, pupils educated in special needs schools and special needs classes in general education schools following the programmes of primary and pre-secondary education, individualised primary and pre-secondary education and secondary education, and programmes of development of social skills) will continue remotely or follow the model of blended education as prescribed by the Minister for Education, Science and Sport in compliance with the conditions laid down by the State Commander of National Emergency Operations for the management of the flow of people, safe physical distance, and other key requirements for public health safety, hygiene, and the provision of persons with necessary personal protective equipment and regular preventive COVID-19 (coronavirus infection) testing of pre-secondary and secondary school pupils and school staff working in contact with the pupils or self-monitoring for COVID-19 (coronavirus infection) is carried out in schools in the territories of the municipalities that are not listed in paragraph 13.2 of this Resolution. Preventive COVID-19 (coronavirus infection) testing (or self-monitoring for COVID-19 (coronavirus infection)) will not be required in the case of pre-secondary and secondary school pupils educated outdoors; 13.5. the final year of secondary education will follow the model of blended education following the procedure laid down by the Minister for Education, Science and Sport in accordance with the conditions laid down by the State Commander of Emergency Operations for the management of the flow of people, safe physical distance, and other key requirements for public health safety, hygiene, and the provision of persons with necessary personal protective equipment; 13.6. pre-secondary education achievements of pupils with special education needs due to deafness, moderate, moderately severe and severe hearing loss or cochlear implant, total blindness, blindness with visual impairment, low vision, and pupils from prison schools (departments) will be examined, in full or in part, indoors with up to 10 pupils, keeping a distance of at least 2 meters between all the persons in the room; or from 11 to 50 pupils, keeping a distance of at least 2 meters between all the persons in the room and ensuring 10 m2 per person; 13.7. maturity examinations or their parts will be held indoors for up to 10 candidates, keeping a distance of at least 2 meters between all the persons in the room; or from 11 to 50 11 candidates, keeping a distance of at least 2 meters between all the persons in the room and ensuring a 10 m2 per person; 13.8. examinations for pupils that graduate school under education programmes of foreign states and international organisations, and entrance examinations (or other selection methods) to general education establishments may be held for up to 10 pupils in one room following the conditions laid down by the State Commander of National Emergency Operations for the management of the flow of people, safe physical distance, and other key requirements for public health safety, hygiene, and the provision of persons with necessary personal protective equipment; 13.9. during school holidays, schools may provide services to children from special needs schools and special needs classes in general education schools in compliance with the conditions laid down by the State Commander of National Emergency Operations for the management of the flow of people, safe physical distance, and other key requirements for public health safety, hygiene, and the provision of persons with necessary personal protective equipment; 13.10. municipal administrations will ensure that children in primary, pre-secondary and secondary education have remote education, care and catering in schools in compliance with the requirements laid down by the State Commander of National Emergency Operations for the management of the flow of people, safe physical distance, and other key requirements for public health safety, hygiene, and the provision of persons with necessary personal protective equipment, where: 13.10.1. parents, adoptive parents, guardians and legal representatives need to perform relevant functions (work) at the workplace and cannot ensure care at home of their children in primary education; 13.10.2. children in primary, pre-secondary and secondary education do not have the conditions for learning at home or for other objective reasons they need other assistance in remote learning under the decision of the school child welfare commission; 13.11. non-formal education for children will be carried out remotely or suspended except the following cases, while ensuring the conditions laid down by the State Commander of National Emergency Operations for the management of the flow of people, safe physical distance, and other key requirements for public health safety, hygiene, and the provision of persons with necessary personal protective equipment: 13.11.1. foreign language proficiency assessment examinations (credits) attended by maximum 10 pupils; 13.11.2. non-formal outdoor education activities for children attended by one group of non-formal education for children up to 25 children in total; 13.11.3. non-formal indoor education activities for children attended by up to 10 children, while ensuring 10 m² of service space per child; 13.11.4. children camp activities attended by up to 15 children in one group, while ensuring 5 m² of service space per child; 12

13.11.5. individual non-formal education activities for children; 13.12. non-formal adult education and non-formal vocational training will be provided remotely or suspended except the following cases, while ensuring the conditions laid down by the State Commander of National Emergency Operations for the management of the flow of people, safe physical distance, and other key requirements for public health safety, hygiene, and the provision of persons with necessary personal protective equipment: 13.12.1. practical training in aviation, seafaring and statutory vocational training establishments following the introductory training course, and practical driving training, practical training of health care staff, as well as foreign language proficiency assessment examinations (credits) for those applying to higher education schools abroad, and the Lithuanian state language and Constitution of the Republic of Lithuania examinations attended by maximum 10 persons, while ensuring at least 10 m2 of service space per person or serving one person at a time; 13.12.2. non-formal outdoor adult education activities attended by no more than one group of non-formal adult education up to 25 persons in total; 13.12.3. non-formal indoor adult education activities attended by up to 10 persons, while ensuring at least 10 m² of service space per person; 13.12.4. individual non-formal adult education and non-formal adult vocational training activities; 13.12.5. non-formal adult education activities attended only by those who qualify under the criteria laid down in paragraph 18 of this Resolution; 13.13. vocational education and training and higher education will be provided remotely except initial vocational training combined with the social skills programme, obligatory traineeships, practical trainings or assessment of competencies, which cannot be implemented remotely, or following the model of blended education subject to regular preventive COVID-19 (coronavirus infection) testing of vocational school pupils and staff working in contact with the pupils, or to self-monitoring of pupils or students of vocational schools or higher education establishments for COVID-19 (coronavirus infection), while ensuring the conditions laid down by the State Commander of National Emergency Operations for the management of the flow of people, safe physical distance, and other key requirements for public health safety, hygiene, and the provision of persons with necessary personal protective equipment. Vocational training or higher education studies can be held indoors for up to 10 pupils or students, keeping a distance of at least 2 meters between all the persons in the room; or attended from 11 to 30 pupils or students, keeping a distance of at least 2 meters between all the persons in the room and ensuring 10 m2 per person; 13.14. education assistance will be provided in compliance with the conditions laid down by the State Commander of National Emergency Operations for the management of the flow of people, safe physical distance, and other key requirements for public health safety, in the same way as education is provided at schools and by other education providers, or remotely. 13

14. To lay down the following requirements for organising activities in social care establishments: 14.1 there will be no visits to residential social care establishments, foster families, group and community homes, except when visiting terminally-ill residents, and/or persons whose visit in that establishment is related to the performance of duties, and when visits are made by those who qualify under the criteria laid down in paragraph 18 of this Resolution; 14.2. social care services will be provided in residential social care establishments and in person’s home in compliance with the conditions laid down by the State Commander of National Emergency Operations for public health safety, hygiene and the provision of persons with necessary personal protective equipment. 15. To lay down the following requirements for organising services in medical establishments regardless of their subordination and legal form: 15.1. ensuring management of patient flows, infrastructure, also material and human resources; 15.2. mobilising health professionals, university and non-university students and residency students and infrastructure, regardless of subordination. Where appropriate, health professionals and staff working with them (personnel serving the medical staff) may be temporarily transferred to another personal health establishment or their job functions may be temporarily changed in order to ensure the proper organisation of health services; 15.3. inpatient personal health care services for COVID-19 disease (coronavirus infection) (hereinafter ‘COVID-19 services’) will be organised on a clustering-territorial principle in accordance with the Annex to this Resolution and in accordance with the requirements laid down within the remit of the Minister for Health and the State Commander of National Emergency Operations. The provision of COVID-19 services will be organised by personal health care establishments (hereinafter ‘organising personal health care establishments’) listed in the Annex to this Resolution, which have units for infectious diseases or human resources to organise the containment of infectious diseases and which organise and coordinate COVID-19 services in the territory of operation specified in the Annex to this Resolution. To ensure the provision of COVID-19 services, the organising personal health care establishments will mobilise other personal health care establishments that are in the territory of operation and that are listed in the Annex to this Resolution (hereinafter ‘mobilised personal health care establishments’) for the provision of COVID-19 services. Instructions given by the organising personal health care establishments on COVID- 19 services to the mobilised personal health care establishments will be mandatory (unless otherwise provided by law). The procedure for organising COVID-19 personal health care services is laid down by the Minister for Health and the State Commander of National Emergency Operations, within their competence; 15.4. for the coordination of the provision of COVID-19 services provided by the organising personal health care establishments, the State Commander of National Emergency Operations makes a decision to appoint a coordinator for the activities of the organising 14 personal health care establishments (hereinafter ‘coordinator’), sets up a coordinating group and approves its rules of procedure. The coordinator organises the provision of COVID-19 services in cooperation with mayors and directors of administrations. Statutory instructions of the coordinator will be mandatory for both the organising personal health care establishments and the mobilised personal health care establishments (unless otherwise provided by law); 15.5. there will be no visiting of patients in personal health care establishments except when visiting terminally-ill patients, children under 14 years of age and patients in maternity wards at the permission of the manager of that establishment or his authorised person, and when visits are made by those who qualify under the criteria laid down in paragraph 18 of this Resolution; 15.6. an outpatient personal health care professional will have to choose the method of service provision that best suits patient’s interests. Contact services include: 15.6.1. dental services; 15.6.2. health care services for pregnant women, mothers and newborns; 15.6.3. vaccination services for children and adults under the National Immunoprophylaxis Programme; 15.6.4. services under disease prevention programmes; 15.6.5. preventive health screening services for individuals applying for a job in an area of activity that involves exposure to certain risk factors; 15.7. the managers of personal health care establishments will ensure that personal health care services are provided in accordance with the approved plan for routine inpatient and/routine outpatient personal health care services, drawn up in accordance with the requirements laid down by the Minister for Health and in line with patient’s interests; 15.8. medical establishments that are part of the Lithuanian public health system shall process all the patient data related to the delivery of health services, including case summaries, referrals, outcomes of referrals,, medical images and their descriptions, only through the Electronic Health Services and Cooperation Infrastructure Information System, and medical establishments that are not part of the Public health system shall ensure the processing of these data and their traceability through its own information system; 15.9. inpatient personal health care services for patients with COVID-19 (coronavirus infection) will be organised as follows: 15.9.1. operational reorganisation in managing patient flows, infrastructure and material and human resources; 15.9.2. to increase, where necessary, the number of beds and / or the scope of health care services for the treatment of patients with COVID-19 (coronavirus infection) and/or mobilising staff, reducing the scope of routine inpatient and/or outpatient health care services or suspending these services, with the exception of services, where failure to provide them would result in patient’s need for medical emergency or a significant deterioration of patient’s condition; 15

15.9.3. there will be no visiting of patients except terminally ill patients and children under 14 years of age at the permission of the treating physician, and when visits are made by those who qualify under the criteria laid down in paragraph 18 of this Resolution. 16. To require that long-term and short-term contact visits to penitentiary establishments and remand prisons are discontinued, except when visits are made by those who qualify under the criteria laid down in paragraph 18 of this Resolution. Visits to penitentiary establishments and remand prisons will be organised and held in compliance with the conditions laid down by the State Commander of National Emergency Operations for the management of the flow of people, safe physical distance, and other key requirements for public health safety, hygiene, and the provision of persons with necessary personal protective equipment. 17. To lay down the following requirements for organising FRC activities: 17.1 asylum seekers staying in the FRC and holding the right to move in the territory of the Republic of Lithuania will not be allowed to leave the FRC for more than 2 hours a day except: 17.1.1. asylum seekers who are involved in contact education activities under paragraph 13 of this Resolution; 17.1.2. asylum seekers that have the right to work, who are employed and who have filed with the FRC administration the existing employment contract; 17.1.3. asylum seekers who are allowed, at the permission of the FRC administration, to leave the FRC for more than 2 hours a day; 17.2. foreigners staying in the FRC will not be visited except visits by their lawyers and staff of the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. 18. To establish that in the cases provided for in this Resolution, work, economic activities or other activities will not be restricted or will be only partially restricted (hereinafter ‘relaxed quarantine measures’), provided persons qualify under at least one of the following criteria: 18.1. they have been vaccinated with one of the following COVID-19 (coronavirus infection) vaccines: 18.1.1. one week after the second dose of Comirnaty or COVID-19 Vaccine Moderna administered under the vaccination schedule; 18.1.2. two weeks after the administration of the dose of the COVID-19 Vaccine Janssen; 18.1.3. four weeks but no longer than 12 weeks after the administration of the first dose of Vaxzevria; 18.1.4. after the second dose of Vaxzevria administered under the vaccination schedule; 18.2. who have had the COVID-19 infection and the diagnosis was confirmed by a positive SARS-CoV-2 PCR test result or an antigen test result and maximum 180 days have 16 passed of the positive testing (but not before the completion of the mandatory self-isolation period); 18.3. who have undergone a COVID-19 test with a negative result: having taken the SARS-CoV-2 PCR test within 72 hours (calculating from the moment of sample collection) or the antigen test within 24 hours (calculating from the moment of sample collection); 18.4. children under 16. 19. To establish that the right to more relaxed quarantine measures will be implemented as follows: 19.1. the right of persons who qualify under the criteria laid down in paragraph 18 of this Resolution to more relaxed quarantine measures is approved in accordance with the procedure laid down by the State Commander of Emergency Operations; 19.2. documents confirming the right to relaxed quarantine measures and personal data contained therein may only be seen by natural or legal persons providing services or other natural and legal persons who make decisions regarding the application of more relaxed quarantine measures in the cases referred to in this Resolution and quarantine compliance officers; they shall not be collected, stored or otherwise processed. In case of doubt, the quarantine compliance officers shall refer for personal data to the Information System of Electronic Health Services and Cooperation Infrastructure; 19.3. documents confirming the right to relaxed quarantine measures and the personal data contained therein may only be seen by persons referred to in paragraph 19.2 of this Resolution to ascertain whether the person qualifies under the criteria laid down in paragraph 18 of this Resolution so as to enable the right to relaxed quarantine measures in the cases referred to in this Resolution and to implement the COVID-19 (coronavirus infection) prevention and control measures. 20. To instruct the State Commander of National Emergency Operations to lay down concrete quarantine measures enforceable during the quarantine declared at the time of national emergency, following the recommendations of the competent ministry on immediate quarantine measures. 21. To establish that in the event where the State Commander of National Emergency Operations is unable to perform the functions of the commander of operations due to temporary incapacity for work, secondment or leave, the functions of the State Commander of National Emergency Operations shall be performed by the Acting Minister. 22. The quarantine shall continue from 7 November 2020, 00.00, until 30 June 2021, 24.00. 23. To establish that economic operators directly and indirectly affected as a result of quarantined economic activities may qualify for support measures in accordance with the procedure and conditions laid down in the description of support measures within the areas of the competence of the Minister for Economy and Innovation and of the Minister for Social Security and Labour, provided that the economic operator meets at least one of the following conditions: 17

23.1. the average monthly turnover of the economic activity of the economic operator, calculated from 1 November 2020 to 31 January 2021, has decreased by at least 30% compared to the average one-month turnover of the respective period in 2019 and/or 2020, based on the data reported in VAT returns filed with the State Tax Inspectorate under the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Lithuania (hereinafter the ‘STI’) or based on the data declared by applicants in their applications in those cases where they are not required to submit VAT returns. In the cases where economic activity was restricted after 30 November 2020, the reference period for the decreased income, compared against the same period in 2019-2020, will be 1 December 2020 - 31 January 2021. In the case where aid is delivered in accordance with section 3.12 of the Communication from the Commission of 20 March 2020 entitled Temporary Framework for State aid measures to support the economy in the current COVID-19 outbreak, as last amended by the Communication from the Commission of 28 January 2021, the average monthly turnover of the economic activity of the economic operator, calculated from 1 November 2020 to 30 April 2021, has decreased by at least 30% compared to the average one-month turnover of the respective period in 2019, based on the data reported in VAT returns filed with the STI or based on the data declared by applicants in their applications in those cases where they are not required to submit VAT returns. In the case where the economic operator has not received income, when calculated from 1 November 2019 to 31 January 2020, they may qualify for aid measures in accordance with the procedure and conditions laid down in the description of aid measures under paragraph 23.2 of this Resolution; 23.2. the main economic activity pursued by the economic operator is included in the list approved by a joint order of the Minister for Economy and Innovation of the Lithuania and the Minister for Social Security and Labour of the Republic of Lithuania, in agreement with the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Lithuania and the STI. The list includes economic activities restricted by this Resolution, also those activities that are indirectly restricted and which are included in this list under Government’s approval.

Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis

Minister for Health Aurelijus Veryga